On Monday 27 August 2007 16:04:39 Decibel! wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:56:33PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > > >>> Decibel! <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx> 08/27/07 4:00 PM >>> > > >>> > > > > > They're running version 8.1.4 > > > > > > As for your pg_dump idea... why not just do a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT * > > > FROM bloated_table? That would likely be much faster than messing > > > around with pg_dump. > > > > He wanted to upgrade to 8.2.4. CREATE TABLE AS won't get him there. > > > > > > > They're running version 8.1.4 on 4-way dell boxes > > > > > with 4Gig of memory on each box attached to RAID-10 disk arrays. > > > > > > What kind of disk hardware is this running on? A good raid 10 array > > > with write caching should be able to handle a 200G database fairly well > > > > What other details were you looking for? > > How many drives? Write caching? 200G isn't *that* big for good drive > hardware, *IF* it's performing the way it should. You'd be surprised how > many arrays fall on their face even from a simple dd test. I havent gotten that info yet, the key resources are too busy... I'll have more info next week. Thanks for the replies... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
